54 TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Adirondack Aap 



Your attention is respectfully called to the need of another edition of 

 the Adirondack map, for which there has been a large and constant demand 

 since its first issue, fifteen years ago. 



This map is indispensable in the work of the Forestry Department, as 

 it is the only one showing the landed allotment of that entire region. The 

 foresters and fire-wardens find it convenient, absolutely necessary, in locating 

 the State lots and acquiring a knowledge of their boundaries in order to 

 protect and manage these forests properly; and without its aid the Pur- 

 chasing Board would find no small difficulty in transacting the business 

 incidental to buying lands. 



The map now in use answered its purpose very well at the time of its 

 first issue, because at that time there was no map of the entire region except 

 the small pocket editions printed by various persons for the use of tourists. 

 It was made under great disadvantages, by compiling the maps of the 

 various townships which had been made by the old surveyors, some of them 

 by Jessup, Richards, and others, over a hundred 3< T ears ago. These maps, 

 old or new, were drawn to a different scale for the most part and had to be 

 reduced to a uniform scale before they could be united in one sheet. The 

 originals were replete with topographical errors, as the surveyors, in many 

 instances, merely ran out the boundaries of the townships, which are about 

 six and one-half miles square,* after which they entered on their map the 

 position of the lakes, streams, and roads as best they could, generally by 

 guesswork or hearsay. In only a few instances are our original township 

 maps correct in their topography. Still we availed ourselves of the informa- 

 tion found in the partial and incomplete sheets known as the Butler Map 

 (1879), the Jones Map (1851), Burr's Atlas, a collection of county maps 

 made in 1823, and other similar sources. Utilizing this data a map was 

 constructed which, despite its inaccuracies, has answered its purpose very 

 well up to the present. 



Since then, however, through the excellent and accurate work done by 



* The townships in the Totten & Crossfield Purchase, 50 in number, are mostly 6 

 by 6£ miles; the townships in the Macomb Tract are somewhat larger; and in the Old 

 Military Tract they are from eight to ten miles square. 



